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Romanes

British  
/ ˈrɒmənɪs /

noun

  1. Romany; the language of the Gypsies

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Romanes

from Romany


Example Sentences

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"The officers were provided with grander costumes supplied by Romanes and Paterson at the Scottish Tartan Warehouse in North Bridge."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022

Mr Romanes said: "Rauour's detection skills really came to the fore that night. "His role as an air scenting search dog was more effective than a 20-strong team performing a line search on the ground.

From BBC ● May 17, 2016

The views of Lubbock and Romanes, however, fell out of favor for many years, replaced by behaviorism — a school of thought that would rule the field of psychology for much of the 20th century.

From Time ● Apr. 13, 2014

The Romanes family founded the Dunfermline Press group in 1859.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2012

As expounded by Wagner, Weismann, Romanes, Gulick, and others, isolation takes many forms—spatial, structural, habitudinal, and psychical—and it has various results.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

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